Conversation Questions Accidents at Home

Conversation Questions Accidents at Home A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom  What is the most dangerous thing in your home?.  What is the most dangerous thing in y

Conversation Questions Accidents at Home

A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom

 What is the most dangerous thing in your home? How can your home be made less dangerous?

 What is the most dangerous thing in your home for a child? How can it be made less dangerous?

 What is the most dangerous thing in your home for an elderly person? How can it

be made less dangerous?

 What dangers can be found in the kitchen that can cause accidents?

 What can be done to prevent kitchen accidents?

 What can a parent do to childproof a kitchen?

 What dangers can be found in bathrooms that can cause accidents?

 What can be done to prevent bathroom accidents?

 What can a parent do to childproof a bathroom?

 What dangers can be found outside the home in the yard that can cause accidents?

 What can be done to prevent yard accidents?

 What can a parent do to childproof the yard?

 What other dangers can be found in a home in bedrooms, laundry rooms, garages, and living areas?

 What can be done throughout the house to prevent accidents?

 What can a parent do to childproof the different rooms of the home?

 Where at home would you put your first aid kit?

 What would you have in it?

 Where are these items found in a house, why could they be dangerous, to whom could they be dangerous, and what could someone do to lessen the danger they present?

 hot pan/pot

 hot curling iron

 knife

 window

 iron

 medicines

 gasoline

 pool

 insecticides

 natural gas

 balcony

 toilets

 staircase

 stove/oven

 stool/ladder

 yard tools

 fireplace

 cellar /attic

 bathtub

 bad dog

 tall pieces of furniture

 swing set / playground

 very clean glass sliding door

 electronic equipment

 cleaning supplies

 lake/retention pond

 loose carpet on slippery tile floor

 glass table or sharp edged table

 hairdryer

 bric-a-brac

 What do you need to do if

 you cut your finger preparing food?

 you fall down and can not move a limb?

 your child drinks a poisonous liquid? (discuss syrup of ipecac)

 the toilet is flooding the bathroom?

 a pan on the stove is on fire?

 a neighbor's dog is growling at you?

 our child falls off a chair and is bleeding?

 What is the phone number for the police?

 How do you call an ambulance?

 What is the phone number for poison control?